The Course

This degree offers the opportunity to gain extensive experience working with professional-standard facilities and equipment, to showcase work at competitions, film festivals and public exhibitions, and to build a dynamic portfolio of work. Students can learn from academics who are experienced practitioners with active links to industry.

Students are encouraged to experiment and explore a variety of lens-based techniques, from the use of traditional film cameras to innovative digital technologies. This approach aims to enable students to develop a specialism and to cultivate a creative and distinctive final portfolio to help launch their artistic career.

The Course

For aspiring photographers and moving image makers, Lincoln’s BA (Hons) Photography degree offers an artistic learning environment that values creative expression and embodiment of the visual form through discovery, engagement and extended practice within a contemporary context.

This degree offers the opportunity to gain extensive experience working with professional-standard facilities and equipment, to showcase work at competitions, film festivals and public exhibitions, and to build a dynamic portfolio of work. Students can learn from academics who are experienced practitioners with active links to industry.

Students are encouraged to experiment and explore a variety of lens-based techniques, from the use of traditional film cameras to innovative digital technologies. This approach aims to enable students to develop a specialism and to cultivate a creative and distinctive final portfolio to help launch their artistic career.

The first year offers an introduction to photography and moving image, as well as a critical understanding of lens-based media and technologies within contemporary contexts. During the second year, students have the opportunity to develop a specialism and in the final year they will be expected to produce a major body of work in their chosen area, which demonstrates a thorough understanding of the medium, as well as a final exhibition of work.

Contact Hours and Reading for a Degree

Students on this programme learn from academic staff who are often engaged in world-leading or internationally excellent research or professional practice. Contact time can be in workshops, practical sessions, seminars or lectures and may vary from module to module and from academic year to year. Tutorial sessions and project supervision can take the form of one-to-one engagement or small group sessions. Some courses offer the opportunity to take part in external visits and fieldwork.

It is still the case that students read for a degree and this means that in addition to scheduled contact hours, students are required to engage in independent study. This allows you to read around a subject and to prepare for lectures and seminars through wider reading, or to complete follow up tasks such as assignments or revision. As a general guide, the amount of independent study required by students at the University of Lincoln is that for every hour in class you are expected to spend at least two to three hours in independent study.

Photography’s role and impact on the 21st century has made it a highly accessible and versatile creative medium. This module engages with contemporary photography practices and discussions around recurring and relevant subjects such as: portraiture, street photography, landscape and non-linear narratives and asks you to think about the diversity of the medium within an art and design context, across varied traditional and contemporary themes and through varied materials such as analogue and digital, as well as new and developing forms of visual representation.

Central to the study of contemporary visual culture is an attempt to question the crucial role of images and visual media in framing ways of “looking” and “seeing” in our society. Such an approach seeks to interrogate photographic practices and modes of representation, examining what is made visible, who sees what, and how seeing, knowing and power are interrelated.

To this end, this module aims to introduce students to the key concepts, figures and histories of lens-media, exploring critical issues in photography, moving image, art and design. The module will explore various theories of image interpretation, visual semiotics, modes of practice and cultural analysis which underpin the critical reading and evaluation of images. The module also addresses personal and professional development as an on going element of critical reflection.

Photography is continually evolving. This module explores photography beyond the traditional still image; investigating established moving, the abundant digital, and emerging hypermedia environments. Dynamic visual forms are progressive, kinetic and immersive; they explore duration, methods of creation and sites of consumption. The module centres on a series of short creative assignments, which is designed to enable you to create self-directed responses. Embedded in this process are lectures, workshops and seminars, wherein a range of technical processes and theoretical concepts can be learned and then applied.

Methods of Practice functions as an intensive series of practice-based workshops and hands on experience designed to provide you with the necessary technical skills and knowledge for the first year of study. It aims to help you to gain confidence, skill and independence in multiple areas of photography and lens-based practice.

Personal and Professional Practice: Beyond the Frame (Core)Find out more

Personal and Professional Practice: Beyond the Frame (Core)

This module runs alongside Contemporary Photography Practices, Dynamic Visual Forms and Contemporary Visual Forms 'Ways of Seeing' by complementing practice and theory through a series of explorations into the communication, dissemination, presentation and consumption of contemporary lens based practice and research.

Working collaboratively with other students, you have the opportunity to produce and participate in a Pecha Kucha, creating an online platform for your practice and create and produce a group exhibition at the end of the year, based on the outcomes you have produced in the practice modules. You have the opportunity to work both collaboratively and independently led by a teaching team of highly specialised practitioners and researchers.

The Becoming an Effective Researcher module is designed to prepare you for the Critical Research Project in the final year of study. Lectures on this module are intended to provide you with the research study skills, and the confidence required, in order to undertake an extended independent research project. The bulk of teaching on the module is delivered on a one-to-one basis as you shall meet with your seminar tutor regularly in order to discuss the research you are developing in your sketchbook. The Becoming an Effective Researcher module culminates in the completion of a Critical Research Project proposal and literature review, which shall form the basis of your critical studies in the final year. The aim of the module is to help you to appreciate how research and critical thinking on a given topic can add value to your own practice as a visual practitioner.

The Critical Practices module is rooted in the desire to foster amongst an awareness of the need to read and understand photographs using aspects of critical theory, aesthetics, and art history. A different theme is addressed in lectures each week, within the lecture & seminar format. Introductory in content common ideas addressed in the module might include: feminism and female objectification; the internet and social media; philosophical notions of beauty and form; ethics and the documentary image; the conceptual art revolution; and emerging aspects of contemporary artistic practice such as post-photography.

The Emergent Photography Practices module aims to develop students’ conceptual awareness and understanding of the value and use of photography today and the future making and consumption of the medium. The module aims to provide you with the opportunity to immerse yourself within the dynamic and creative medium of photography, one that is in a constant state of flux and fluidity and find your artistic voice through critically informed work that addresses emergent practices and debates in photography.

You can produce work that reconsiders established photographic contexts in subject areas like; City, Landscape, Document, Narrative, Object, Fashion, Portrait and Social Media, with a series of short projects that negotiates new and evolving practices, before settling on a chosen theme and genre and over the second period of the term in which to develop and produce a self-initiated body of work through independent practice and research.

This module invites you to consider your evolving practice as the result of multiple 'interactions'. Designed as a bridge between the modules 'Dynamic Visual Forms', 'Emergent Photography Practices' and 'The Symposium: Dialogues in Photography', it aims to develop your conceptual awareness and understanding of the value and use of Art photography today and the future, making and consumption of the medium.

This module aims to provide-practice based and hands on experience in support of practice modules to an advanced level. Students can explore advanced modes of practice in the form of master-classes such as screen-printing techniques, art photography projection, art installation techniques, advanced traditional and digital moving image techniques and technologies that are associated with dynamic, innovative and original production of practice based work.

This module offers students the exciting chance to study abroad for the first term of their second year of study. This is designed to enable students to spend a term at an agreed institution to experience other conceptual approaches and pedagogies to the study of contemporary photography, lens based practice, their own and others' culture and history, and to be enriched by the experience of living in another culture.

In this innovative and dynamic module the Student as Producer principles are at the core of the collaborative process between students’ and teaching team. Through the development and refinement of students’ practice and research engagement and based on the practice and research produced in parallel modules, students together with the teaching team design, produce and participate in a two day themed symposium and accompanying online exhibition at the end of the second year of study.

The Symposium is a dialogue for discussion around the diverse medium of photography, its’ conceptuality and application, methods of communication, converging and diverging notions of dissemination and presentation and the future of the medium itself.

This module provides an opportunity for students to identify and independently research a topic of their own choice, over the duration of 20 weeks. Through a process of self-directed study, students will be required to produce a formally written academic text, which extends to a total 8000 words. Drawing upon the skills of academic writing and contextual knowledge developed on the previous module Becoming An Effective Researcher, the Critical Research Project represents a rigorous analysis of their chosen research topic. The opportunity to study a distinct area of cultural production at length provides students with the opportunity to situate their practice, and/or predominant interests, into a critically established framework.

This module provides students with the opportunity to consolidate their major body of work as initiated and developed in the previous module Major Project: Proposal and Development. The module is designed to expand and increase students' understanding of a preferred area of Photography/Lens Based Media and enable the realisation of a high level of critical and creative practice.

This module offers students the opportunity to work independently, critically and professionally. Students are expected to identify, self-initiate and produce informed research and launch a major body of work of an original concept in a chosen area of Photography. Assessed via individual presentation and exhibition, this module provides students with a ‘test-bed’ in which to explore, develop and produce a creative and critical lens based media body of work in which to continue and consolidate in the module; Extended Practice.

Situated Professional Practice is designed as an exciting and dynamic module that aims to prepare you for skilled working practice, research, and employability, the production and participation in a professional group exhibition, online platform and publication.

† Some courses may offer optional modules. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by staff availability.

LEVEL 1

Contemporary Photography Practices (Core)

Contemporary Visual Culture: Ways of Seeing (Core)

Dynamic Visual Forms (Core)

Methods of Practice (Core)

Personal and Professional Practice: Beyond the Frame (Core)

LEVEL 2

Becoming an Effective Researcher (Core)

Critical Practices (Core)

Emergent Photography Practices (Core)

InterActions: Form and Thought (Core)

Professional Development (Core)

Study Abroad Photography (Option)†

The Symposium: Dialogues in Photography (Core)

LEVEL 3

Critical Research Project (Core)

Extended Practice (Core)

Major Project: Proposal and Development (Core)

Situated Professional Practice (Core)

† Some courses may offer optional modules. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by staff availability.

In the first, second and third years, assessment is 100% coursework. The programme is assessed on the basis of course work which comprises project work and written submissions, and consists of both formative and summative assessment.

Formative feedback guides students on the process of work and takes the form of group and individual discussion. Tutor feedback provides students with guidance on their performance during each module.

Summative assessment occurs at the end of each module. Student work is assessed against clearly defined criteria and learning outcomes. A summative mark is awarded based upon evidence that all criteria have been complied with and all aims and learning outcomes for the assignment have been achieved.

The University of Lincoln’s policy is to ensure that staff return assessments to students promptly.

Successful Applicants will be invited for interview, where they will have the opportunity to go through their portfolio with a member of the academic team.

Applicants should aim to bring approximately 15 – 20 pieces of work. This portfolio can contain photographic prints as well as screen based work (i.e. moving image/experimental). The work does not need to be mounted, if it already is then that’s fine, but please do not mount your work especially for your interview.

Applicants should select a range of work that shows us what they are interested in, their passions as well as showing a range of skills. We are interested in looking at a variety of creative photographic work, as applicable and relevant to applicants’ areas of study. We are aware that some applicants may have covered some photographic skills that have not been available to all students; this is not a problem, we want to see students’ potential and passion for the subject.

We love to see evidence of the working process, so please bring a sketchbook that relates to specific projects within the portfolio.

What makes a good portfolio and sketchbook?

A range of visual concepts, innovative thinking and an ability to visualise ideas

The portfolio and any supporting material should be well presented

An ability to handle a range and variety of technologies, materials processes and a willingness to experiment.

Students on this course have won first prize twice at the prestigious Young Creative Chevrolet competition. Recently, student Kenny van Mierlo was awarded a cash prize and a trip to Los Angeles.

Student Successes

Student Successes Photography students and graduates from Lincoln work with top names at international events. Graduate Hannah Wilson is currently working with Grazia magazine. Dan Medhurst has worked with clients including Adidas, Burberry, Coca-Cola, Diesel, Sony Music and The Guardian, while work by graduate Adam Deakin was selected for exhibition in the prestigious Portrait Salon tour.

Our students have had the opportunity to enter and win bursary awards with the Lincoln Camera Club. As part of the Lincoln Landmarks initiative, run by Debenhams and the University of Lincoln, winning images produced by our students are printed and displayed at Debenhams in Lincoln.

ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD

Students on this course will receive a licence for Adobe Creative Cloud free of charge.

Student as Producer

Student as Producer is a model of teaching and learning that encourages academics and undergraduate students to collaborate on research activities. It is a programme committed to learning through doing.

The Student as Producer initiative was commended by the QAA in our 2012 review and is one of the teaching and learning features that makes the Lincoln experience unique.

Placements

Some courses offer students the opportunity to undertake placements. When students are on an optional placement in the UK or overseas or studying abroad, they will be required to cover their own transport and accommodation and meals costs. Placements can range from a few weeks to a full year if students choose to undertake an optional sandwich year in industry (where available). Students are encouraged to obtain placements in industry independently. Tutors may provide support and advice to students who require it during this process.

†Please note that not all courses are available as a part-time option.

The University undergraduate tuition fee may increase year on year in line with government policy. This will enable us to continue to provide the best possible educational facilities and student experience.

Fees for enrolment on additional modules

Tuition fees for additional activity are payable by the student/sponsor and charged at the equivalent £ per credit point rate for each module. Additional activity includes:

- Enrolment on modules that are in addition to the validated programme curriculum

- Enrolment on modules that are over and above the full credit diet for the relevant academic year

- Retakes of modules as permitted by the Board of Examiners

- In exceptional circumstances, students who are required to re-take modules can do so on an 'assessment only' basis. This means that students do not attend timetabled teaching events but are required to take the assessments/examinations associated with the module(s). The 'assessment only' fee is half of the £ per credit point fee for each module.

Exceptionally, tuition fees may not be payable where a student has been granted a retake with approved extenuating circumstances.

Additional Costs

For each course students may find that there are additional costs. These may be with regard to the specific clothing, materials or equipment required, depending on their subject area. Some courses provide opportunities for students to undertake field work or field trips. Where these are compulsory, the cost for the travel, accommodation and meals may be covered by the University and so is included in the fee. Where these are optional students will normally (unless stated otherwise) be required to pay their own transportation, accommodation and meal costs.

With regards to text books, the University provides students who enrol with a comprehensive reading list and our extensive library holds either material or virtual versions of the core texts that students are required to read. However, students may prefer to purchase some of these for themselves and will therefore be responsible for this cost. Where there may be exceptions to this general rule, information will be displayed in a section titled Other Costs below.

If you would like further information about entry requirements or would like to discuss whether the qualifications you are currently studying are acceptable, please contact the Admissions Team on +44 (0)1522 886097 or email admissions@lincoln.ac.uk

Unconditional Offer Scheme

The University of Lincoln Unconditional Offer Scheme has been created to identify outstanding undergraduate applicants who we think would excel at Lincoln and make a significant contribution to our academic community.

The University of Lincoln takes a holistic contextual view, looking at students in the round, including all the information supplied in their application and any additional relevant assessment required, such as a portfolio, or interview. The qualities required for success are therefore not exclusively academic, and students’ drive, ambition, creativity, and potential are important factors in those considered for the scheme.

Applicants selected for the scheme, who commit to the University of Lincoln as their first choice of university, will receive an unconditional offer. We expect students in receipt of an unconditional offer to continue to apply themselves in their studies, both at school and when they join our academic community here at Lincoln. In previous years students who were selected and joined through the Lincoln unconditional offer scheme have shown very good success rate in their studies.

The first year offers an introduction to photography and moving image, as well as a critical understanding of lens-based media and technologies within contemporary contexts. During the second year, students have the opportunity to develop a specialism and in the final year they will be expected to produce a major body of work in their chosen area, which demonstrates a thorough understanding of the medium, as well as a final exhibition of work.

Contact Hours and Reading for a Degree

Students on this programme learn from academic staff who are often engaged in world-leading or internationally excellent research or professional practice. Contact time can be in workshops, practical sessions, seminars or lectures and may vary from module to module and from academic year to year. Tutorial sessions and project supervision can take the form of one-to-one engagement or small group sessions. Some courses offer the opportunity to take part in external visits and fieldwork.

It is still the case that students read for a degree and this means that in addition to scheduled contact hours, students are required to engage in independent study. This allows you to read around a subject and to prepare for lectures and seminars through wider reading, or to complete follow up tasks such as assignments or revision. As a general guide, the amount of independent study required by students at the University of Lincoln is that for every hour in class you are expected to spend at least two to three hours in independent study.

Photography’s role and impact on the 21st century has made it a highly accessible and versatile creative medium. This module engages with contemporary photography practices and discussions around recurring and relevant subjects such as: portraiture, street photography, landscape and non-linear narratives and asks you to think about the diversity of the medium within an art and design context, across varied traditional and contemporary themes and through varied materials such as analogue and digital, as well as new and developing forms of visual representation.

Central to the study of contemporary visual culture is an attempt to question the crucial role of images and visual media in framing ways of “looking” and “seeing” in our society. Such an approach seeks to interrogate photographic practices and modes of representation, examining what is made visible, who sees what, and how seeing, knowing and power are interrelated.

To this end, this module aims to introduce students to the key concepts, figures and histories of lens-media, exploring critical issues in photography, moving image, art and design. The module will explore various theories of image interpretation, visual semiotics, modes of practice and cultural analysis which underpin the critical reading and evaluation of images. The module also addresses personal and professional development as an on going element of critical reflection.

Photography is continually evolving. This module explores photography beyond the traditional still image; investigating established moving, the abundant digital, and emerging hypermedia environments. Dynamic visual forms are progressive, kinetic and immersive; they explore duration, methods of creation and sites of consumption. The module centres on a series of short creative assignments, which is designed to enable you to create self-directed responses. Embedded in this process are lectures, workshops and seminars, wherein a range of technical processes and theoretical concepts can be learned and then applied.

Methods of Practice functions as an intensive series of practice-based workshops and hands on experience designed to provide you with the necessary technical skills and knowledge for the first year of study. It aims to help you to gain confidence, skill and independence in multiple areas of photography and lens-based practice.

Personal and Professional Practice: Beyond the Frame (Core)Find out more

Personal and Professional Practice: Beyond the Frame (Core)

This module runs alongside Contemporary Photography Practices, Dynamic Visual Forms and Contemporary Visual Forms 'Ways of Seeing' by complementing practice and theory through a series of explorations into the communication, dissemination, presentation and consumption of contemporary lens based practice and research.

Working collaboratively with other students, you have the opportunity to produce and participate in a Pecha Kucha, creating an online platform for your practice and create and produce a group exhibition at the end of the year, based on the outcomes you have produced in the practice modules. You have the opportunity to work both collaboratively and independently led by a teaching team of highly specialised practitioners and researchers.

The Becoming an Effective Researcher module is designed to prepare you for the Critical Research Project in the final year of study. Lectures on this module are intended to provide you with the research study skills, and the confidence required, in order to undertake an extended independent research project. The bulk of teaching on the module is delivered on a one-to-one basis as you shall meet with your seminar tutor regularly in order to discuss the research you are developing in your sketchbook. The Becoming an Effective Researcher module culminates in the completion of a Critical Research Project proposal and literature review, which shall form the basis of your critical studies in the final year. The aim of the module is to help you to appreciate how research and critical thinking on a given topic can add value to your own practice as a visual practitioner.

The Critical Practices module is rooted in the desire to foster amongst an awareness of the need to read and understand photographs using aspects of critical theory, aesthetics, and art history. A different theme is addressed in lectures each week, within the lecture & seminar format. Introductory in content common ideas addressed in the module might include: feminism and female objectification; the internet and social media; philosophical notions of beauty and form; ethics and the documentary image; the conceptual art revolution; and emerging aspects of contemporary artistic practice such as post-photography.

The Emergent Photography Practices module aims to develop students’ conceptual awareness and understanding of the value and use of photography today and the future making and consumption of the medium. The module aims to provide you with the opportunity to immerse yourself within the dynamic and creative medium of photography, one that is in a constant state of flux and fluidity and find your artistic voice through critically informed work that addresses emergent practices and debates in photography.

You can produce work that reconsiders established photographic contexts in subject areas like; City, Landscape, Document, Narrative, Object, Fashion, Portrait and Social Media, with a series of short projects that negotiates new and evolving practices, before settling on a chosen theme and genre and over the second period of the term in which to develop and produce a self-initiated body of work through independent practice and research.

This module invites you to consider your evolving practice as the result of multiple 'interactions'. Designed as a bridge between the modules 'Dynamic Visual Forms', 'Emergent Photography Practices' and 'The Symposium: Dialogues in Photography', it aims to develop your conceptual awareness and understanding of the value and use of Art photography today and the future, making and consumption of the medium.

This module aims to provide-practice based and hands on experience in support of practice modules to an advanced level. Students can explore advanced modes of practice in the form of master-classes such as screen-printing techniques, art photography projection, art installation techniques, advanced traditional and digital moving image techniques and technologies that are associated with dynamic, innovative and original production of practice based work.

This module offers students the exciting chance to study abroad for the first term of their second year of study. This is designed to enable students to spend a term at an agreed institution to experience other conceptual approaches and pedagogies to the study of contemporary photography, lens based practice, their own and others' culture and history, and to be enriched by the experience of living in another culture.

In this innovative and dynamic module the Student as Producer principles are at the core of the collaborative process between students’ and teaching team. Through the development and refinement of students’ practice and research engagement and based on the practice and research produced in parallel modules, students together with the teaching team design, produce and participate in a two day themed symposium and accompanying online exhibition at the end of the second year of study.

The Symposium is a dialogue for discussion around the diverse medium of photography, its’ conceptuality and application, methods of communication, converging and diverging notions of dissemination and presentation and the future of the medium itself.

This module provides an opportunity for students to identify and independently research a topic of their own choice, over the duration of 20 weeks. Through a process of self-directed study, students will be required to produce a formally written academic text, which extends to a total 8000 words. Drawing upon the skills of academic writing and contextual knowledge developed on the previous module Becoming An Effective Researcher, the Critical Research Project represents a rigorous analysis of their chosen research topic. The opportunity to study a distinct area of cultural production at length provides students with the opportunity to situate their practice, and/or predominant interests, into a critically established framework.

This module provides students with the opportunity to consolidate their major body of work as initiated and developed in the previous module Major Project: Proposal and Development. The module is designed to expand and increase students' understanding of a preferred area of Photography/Lens Based Media and enable the realisation of a high level of critical and creative practice.

This module offers students the opportunity to work independently, critically and professionally. Students are expected to identify, self-initiate and produce informed research and launch a major body of work of an original concept in a chosen area of Photography. Assessed via individual presentation and exhibition, this module provides students with a ‘test-bed’ in which to explore, develop and produce a creative and critical lens based media body of work in which to continue and consolidate in the module; Extended Practice.

Situated Professional Practice is designed as an exciting and dynamic module that aims to prepare you for skilled working practice, research, and employability, the production and participation in a professional group exhibition, online platform and publication.

† Some courses may offer optional modules. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by staff availability.

LEVEL 1

Contemporary Photography Practices (Core)

Contemporary Visual Culture: Ways of Seeing (Core)

Dynamic Visual Forms (Core)

Methods of Practice (Core)

Personal and Professional Practice: Beyond the Frame (Core)

LEVEL 2

Becoming an Effective Researcher (Core)

Critical Practices (Core)

Emergent Photography Practices (Core)

InterActions: Form and Thought (Core)

Professional Development (Core)

Study Abroad Photography (Option)†

The Symposium: Dialogues in Photography (Core)

LEVEL 3

Critical Research Project (Core)

Extended Practice (Core)

Major Project: Proposal and Development (Core)

Situated Professional Practice (Core)

† Some courses may offer optional modules. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by staff availability.

In the first, second and third years, assessment is 100% coursework. The programme is assessed on the basis of course work which comprises project work and written submissions, and consists of both formative and summative assessment.

Formative feedback guides students on the process of work and takes the form of group and individual discussion. Tutor feedback provides students with guidance on their performance during each module.

Summative assessment occurs at the end of each module. Student work is assessed against clearly defined criteria and learning outcomes. A summative mark is awarded based upon evidence that all criteria have been complied with and all aims and learning outcomes for the assignment have been achieved.

The University of Lincoln’s policy is to ensure that staff return assessments to students promptly.

Successful applicants will be invited for interview, where they will have the opportunity to go through their portfolio with a member of the academic team.

Applicants should aim to bring approximately 15 to 20 pieces of work. This portfolio can contain photographic prints as well as screen-based work (i.e. moving image/experimental). The work does not need to be mounted, if it already is then that’s fine, but please do not mount your work especially for your interview.

Applicants should select a range of work that shows us what they are interested in, their passions as well as showing a range of skills. We are interested in looking at a variety of creative photographic work, as applicable and relevant to applicants’ areas of study. We are aware that some applicants may have covered some photographic skills that have not been available to all students; this is not a problem, we want to see students’ potential and passion for the subject.

We love to see evidence of the working process, so please bring a sketchbook that relates to specific projects within the portfolio.

What makes a good portfolio and sketchbook?

A range of visual concepts, innovative thinking and an ability to visualise ideas

The portfolio and any supporting material should be well presented

An ability to handle a range and variety of technologies, materials processes and a willingness to experiment.

Students on this course have won first prize twice at the prestigious Young Creative Chevrolet competition. Recently, student Kenny van Mierlo was awarded a cash prize and a trip to Los Angeles.

Student Successes

Photography students and graduates from Lincoln work with top names at international events. Graduate Hannah Wilson is currently working with Grazia magazine; Craig Clayton was shortlisted for the Association of Photographers Student Awards in 2017; Dan Medhurst has worked with clients including Adidas, Burberry, Coca-Cola, Diesel, Sony Music and The Guardian; Alice Langley and Emilie Nunn are continuing their education and have both progressed to study at Master's level.

Our students have had the opportunity to enter and win bursary awards with the Lincoln Camera Club. As part of the Lincoln Landmarks initiative, run by Debenhams and the University of Lincoln, winning images produced by our students are printed and displayed at Debenhams in Lincoln.

ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD

Students on this course currently have access to Adobe Creative Cloud software for the duration of their studies via our media and design labs.

Student as Producer

Student as Producer is a model of teaching and learning that encourages academics and undergraduate students to collaborate on research activities. It is a programme committed to learning through doing.

The Student as Producer initiative was commended by the QAA in our 2012 review and is one of the teaching and learning features that makes the Lincoln experience unique.

Placements

Some courses offer students the opportunity to undertake placements. When students are on an optional placement in the UK or overseas or studying abroad, they will be required to cover their own transport and accommodation and meals costs. Placements can range from a few weeks to a full year if students choose to undertake an optional sandwich year in industry (where available). Students are encouraged to obtain placements in industry independently. Tutors may provide support and advice to students who require it during this process.

†Please note that not all courses are available as a part-time option.

The University undergraduate tuition fee may increase year on year in line with government policy. This will enable us to continue to provide the best possible educational facilities and student experience.

Fees for enrolment on additional modules

Tuition fees for additional activity are payable by the student/sponsor and charged at the equivalent £ per credit point rate for each module. Additional activity includes:

- Enrolment on modules that are in addition to the validated programme curriculum

- Enrolment on modules that are over and above the full credit diet for the relevant academic year

- Retakes of modules as permitted by the Board of Examiners

- In exceptional circumstances, students who are required to re-take modules can do so on an 'assessment only' basis. This means that students do not attend timetabled teaching events but are required to take the assessments/examinations associated with the module(s). The 'assessment only' fee is half of the £ per credit point fee for each module.

Exceptionally, tuition fees may not be payable where a student has been granted a retake with approved extenuating circumstances.

Additional Costs

For each course students may find that there are additional costs. These may be with regard to the specific clothing, materials or equipment required, depending on their subject area. Some courses provide opportunities for students to undertake field work or field trips. Where these are compulsory, the cost for the travel, accommodation and meals may be covered by the University and so is included in the fee. Where these are optional students will normally (unless stated otherwise) be required to pay their own transportation, accommodation and meal costs.

With regards to text books, the University provides students who enrol with a comprehensive reading list and our extensive library holds either material or virtual versions of the core texts that students are required to read. However, students may prefer to purchase some of these for themselves and will therefore be responsible for this cost. Where there may be exceptions to this general rule, information will be displayed in a section titled Other Costs below.

If you would like further information about entry requirements, or would like to discuss whether the qualifications you are currently studying are acceptable, please contact the Admissions team on 01522 886097, or email admissions@lincoln.ac.uk.

Unconditional Offer Scheme

The University of Lincoln Unconditional Offer Scheme has been created to identify outstanding undergraduate applicants who we think would excel at Lincoln and make a significant contribution to our academic community.

The University of Lincoln takes a holistic contextual view, looking at students in the round, including all the information supplied in their application and any additional relevant assessment required, such as a portfolio, or interview. The qualities required for success are therefore not exclusively academic, and students’ drive, ambition, creativity, and potential are important factors in those considered for the scheme.

Applicants selected for the scheme, who commit to the University of Lincoln as their first choice of university, will receive an unconditional offer. We expect students in receipt of an unconditional offer to continue to apply themselves in their studies, both at school and when they join our academic community here at Lincoln. In previous years students who were selected and joined through the Lincoln unconditional offer scheme have shown very good success rate in their studies.

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Throughout this degree, students may receive tuition from professors, senior lecturers, lecturers, researchers, practitioners, visiting experts or technicians, and they may also be supported in their learning by other students.

British freelance photographer Tom Martin specialises in documenting humanitarian issues in Africa and Asia, working with charities and organisations including the EU and UN. His publications range from The Economist and The Independent to Italian Vogue and the Lancet. He has exhibited widely with solo shows in Westminster and Rwanda and has been selected for the Taylor Wessing photo prize at the National Portrait Gallery. He specialises in still and moving image documentary methodology, and has developed participatory photo projects in collaboration with NGOs in Bangladesh and South Sudan.

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Graduates have gone on to work in the media and design industries including roles in advertising, fashion, digital communication, photojournalism and film-making. Some Lincoln graduates have set up their own photography and video production businesses with help from the University of Lincoln’s business incubator, Sparkhouse. Some have gone on to study further at postgraduate level.

Careers Service

The University Careers and Employability Team offer qualified advisors who can work with students to provide tailored, individual support and careers advice during their time at the University. As a member of our alumni we also offer one-to-one support in the first year after completing a course, including access to events, vacancy information and website resources; with access to online vacancies and virtual resources for the following two years.

This service can include one-to-one coaching, CV advice and interview preparation to help you maximise our graduates future opportunities.

The service works closely with local, national and international employers, acting as a gateway to the business world.

Graduates have gone on to work in the media and design industries including roles in advertising, fashion, digital communication, photojournalism and filmmaking. Some Lincoln graduates have set up their own photography and video production businesses with help from the University of Lincoln’s business incubator, Sparkhouse. Some have gone on to study further at postgraduate level.

Careers Service

The University Careers and Employability Team offer qualified advisors who can work with students to provide tailored, individual support and careers advice during their time at the University. As a member of our alumni we also offer one-to-one support in the first year after completing a course, including access to events, vacancy information and website resources; with access to online vacancies and virtual resources for the following two years.

This service can include one-to-one coaching, CV advice and interview preparation to help you maximise our graduates future opportunities.

The service works closely with local, national and international employers, acting as a gateway to the business world.

The purpose-built Photography Department includes lecture and seminar rooms, photography studios fully fitted with electronic flash lighting, film processing facilities, darkrooms and a digital video edit suite. Students have access to a range of camera formats and computer suites. Students can also benefit from the Lincoln School of Film and Media’s expertise and facilities in sound design and digital film production.

All Photography students can have access to Adobe Creative Cloud suite software via our media and design labs.

At Lincoln, we constantly invest in our campus as we aim to provide the best learning environment for our undergraduates. Whatever the area of study, the University strives to ensure students have access to specialist equipment and resources, to develop the skills, which they may need in their future career.